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All right everybody welcome back ready for another deep dive always ready to dive in.

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Well today things are gonna get um round or not round yeah we're tackling flat earth belief.

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Oh this is a good one a classic. Right and to really get into it we're focusing on a guy

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flat earth Dave. Yeah. Claims to be like a leader in the movement. I've heard that name. Yeah so

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before we get too far we've got two main sources for this deep dive some random notes someone

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just basic info labeled pasted text and then we're going straight to his website the flat

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earth podcast got a snapshot of it right here. So this pasted text it doesn't beat around the

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brush calls Dave a leader says he's spreading the truth which honestly kind of sets off

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alarm bells already you know. It's interesting how those words get used right because leader

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implies some kind of following people who buy into what you're saying and truth

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well everyone wants to be on the side of truth makes it hard to disagree without feeling like

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you're somehow in the wrong. Exactly and that's what's so fascinating to me about this whole thing

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because we're not just talking about a difference of opinion here it's this whole other world view

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but then you go to his website and it's slick 199,643 subscribers clearly he's doing something

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right. It's easy to dismiss these communities as being small or insignificant but that number

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that tells you there's something else going on this is a group of people who feel connected to this

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idea totally and the way the website's designed very deliberate must-see videos the great awakening

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coffee with a flat earth Dave discount quid by the way this isn't just some guy with a microphone

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it's a whole brand savvy he's using the same techniques as any successful online personality

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bold text calls to action it's all designed to draw you in and make you feel like you're

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part of something which is kind of mind-blowing right this idea of a flat earth something most

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people would consider totally out there but it's being presented in this very modern very online

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way what do you think that says about how information spreads now it highlights the

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importance of critical thinking because it's easy to get swept up in a well-designed website or a

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large following we've got to be able to step back and look at the information itself

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not just the way it's being presented absolutely and I think that's something that's really

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important for everyone to remember not just for this flat earth stuff yeah but for everything look

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we've all fallen for a clickbaity headline right or bought something because of a flashy ad happens

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to the best of us exactly so if we can be fooled by something as simple as that imagine how easy

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it is to be drawn into something that's carefully constructed and speaks to some deeper need or

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desire which honestly is what's so fascinating about this whole flat earth babe thing because

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it's more than just the earth being flat or not it's about how we process information how

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we build community and how we decide what to believe 100 percent it's a microcosm of the

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challenges we're all facing in this digital age yeah and that's something to think about right

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because if a seemingly outlandish idea like a flat earth can gain traction like this what

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else is out there what other beliefs communities maybe even whole systems of thought are we buying

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into without even realizing it that's the question we all need to be asking ourselves

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so the next time you're scrolling online or watching a video or even just listening to a

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podcast take a moment to think about what you're consuming who's behind it what are their motivations

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and what are they trying to get you to believe because in this day and age critical thinking

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isn't just a skill it's a necessity that's all the time we have for this deep dive

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thanks for joining us until next time